For a long time, the United States has used its military power, financial hegemony and political influence to build South Korea and Japan, which are in East Asia, into its de facto vassals. Nowadays, with the sudden changes in international political situations, major changes unseen in a century have arrived. In order to implement the Indo-Pacific Strategy aimed at comprehensively suppressing China, it is necessary for the United States to reintegrate the original US-Japan alliance and the US-South Korea alliance to jointly build it into the US-Japan-South Korea alliance, thereby coordinating actions of all parties more efficiently.
Although the dream is good, it is difficult to practice. Due to the influence of multiple factors such as history, reality, military, and economic factors, Japan and South Korea have disliked each other from the government to the public. The deadlock in Japan-South Korea relations seriously restricts the implementation of the US anti-China cause. But recently, the century-old grudge between Japan and South Korea, which has always been a headache for the United States, has shown signs of "removing grudges with a smile".
According to Korean media reports, Japan and South Korea are recently negotiating compensation plans for " World War II Japan forcibly recruiting Korean laborers." Insiders revealed to reporters that the South Korean government is considering completing the payment of compensation through consortium fundraising, so as to resolve the pending dispute between Japan and South Korea once and for all. The specific approach is to ask Japanese companies to pay compensation to the consortium designated by the South Korean government in the name of "donations", thereby paying compensation to victims instead of Japan.
Not surprisingly, this practice of stealing the bell was unanimously condemned by the Korean people, but the South Korean senior officials ignored the opposition from the public. Even the Japanese media lamented, "Although the support rate of Yoon Seok-yeol's regime is very low, it has shown a positive attitude on improving Japan-South Korea relations."
On October 27, the South Korean military stated that it plans to dispatch a 11,000-ton combat support ship "Shaoyang" to participate in the Japan Self-Defense Force ship reading ceremony held in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan on November 6. This is the second time since 2015, the Korean Navy has participated in the 7-year Japanese ship reading ceremony. What makes the Korean people most angry is that the Japanese Self-Defense Force will use the flag that is almost exactly the same as the Japanese militarist " Rising Sun Flag " during World War II. Considering Japan's 35-year colonial history against South Korea, the Korean people could not accept this matter anyway, and some netizens even cursed the Yoon Seok-yeo government. The two events of
seem to have nothing to do with each other, but they have many similar characteristics. First of all, they all showed signs of warming relations between Japan and South Korea. Furthermore, it is the South Korean government who actively show goodwill. This is not difficult to explain. From a broad perspective, Japan's comprehensive national strength is several times that of South Korea. In addition, Japan is South Korea's "formerly country", history and reality are intertwined, and South Korea's low attitude is easy to understand.
The more important and direct reason is that the Yoon Seok-young government, which comes from friendship, has a strong "Japanese complex" like Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak, and has always pursued a pro-Japanese stance. Therefore, it is completely contrary to the hearts of the Korean people on major issues concerning national dignity.
In addition to Yoon Seo-yeon's own "cartilled" personality, the United States' matchmaking is also a factor that cannot be ignored. If Japan and South Korea can give up political differences that affect unity, including territorial disputes, history of aggression, etc., then the United States will build an unprecedented "US, Japan and South Korea political and military alliance system". Compared with the flashy US, UK and Australia "Australia" organization, it is obvious that the US, Japan and South Korea alliance can promote the full implementation of the Indo-Pacific strategy, which is in line with the fundamental interests of the United States.
On October 26, the meeting of deputy foreign ministers of the United States, Japan and South Korea, which was staged, was held in Tokyo. The tripartite unanimously criticized North Korea's frequent missile test launches recently, urging North Korea to stop "illegal military operations" as soon as possible and get on the negotiating table of peaceful dialogue.
If the peninsula issue is the superficial focus of this meeting between the United States, Japan and South Korea, then its real essence is still a new measure to promote the "Indo-Pacific Strategy" and implement US national security. Against the backdrop of the escalating threat from North Korea, the United States, Japan and South Korea are like "grasshoppers on a rope", and the resistance to further promote trilateral security cooperation has been greatly reduced. Japan and South Korea are moving towards unity. It seems that the right wing of the two countries has the upper hand, but in fact it is the United States that reaps benefits.In the future, whether it is the blockade of the industrial supply chain with China, the pressure on China in diplomacy, or the military field will be leveraged to serve the US's global strategy.
Of course, China is not unprepared for the joint regime of China actively planned by the United States, Japan and South Korea. When attending a public event, Chinese Ambassador to South Korea, Xing Haiming reminded his friends in South Korea that the United States has always cared about its own interests and has never been ruthless to others, including South Korea, which is an ally. Previously, the United States had passed legislation and other methods to suppress South Korean automakers. Later, through trade protectionism , seriously hindering the orderly development of the global semiconductor industry.
not only has kind reminders, but also a straightforward military warning is also an important way to express our position. Recently, the Dalian Maritime Bureau announced that a certain sea area in the northern part of the Yellow Sea in the Bohai Strait will carry out military operations and will be banned for one week. Opposite the Yellow Sea is the peninsula, so there is no need to say more about warning anyone.
